Saturday, June 27, 2009

I'm updating the use of a label, namely Crossover, which I originally used for a crossover with Irregular Webcomic. Actually, it was a strip that I had done that I had had permission for, but it wasn't part of IWC's official storyline. (It did wind up generating so much traffic, I had a new classroom example for what an outlier is.

Anyway, I'm expanding the use of this tag -- rather than create another one -- to include all parodies, satires and shout-outs to other webcomics as well as crossover. If this causes any confusion, let me know, and I'll create a different tag.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Some find it hard to change their ways and integrate new technologies.

This cartoon reuses an old Irregular Webcomicstrip under the Creative Commons license. As such, this one strip is created under that license.

Class Blog was a previous strip that was created under the same license.

And just to avoid confusion, although both of these strips are from IWC's Shakespeare theme, when they appear here, they are totally unrelated characters. Those particular strips lend themselves to a Teacher Center theme very nicely and they complement my (developing, but nonetheless lacking) artistic abilities.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

On April 12th, the 47th known Mersenne prime, 242,643,801-1, a 12,837,064 digit number was found by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway! This prime is the second largest known prime number, a "mere" 141,125 digits smaller than the Mersenne prime found last August.

Mersenne Primes where the subject of a comic from last May:http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/05/mersenne.html

In the winding mountain roads just outside the City, a car is in trouble! Worse yet, there's a driver in trouble! His wife is going to kill him because he's a lousy driver! Can Our Hero save the man from his wife and himself?

Why is this mystery ... thing? Click on the link to the comic and find follow the exciting story!

Friday, June 12, 2009

Bro. Steve is among the school's honorees tonight for his many years of service -- including three with me.

UPDATE: I found out this weekend from The Tablet that not only is Bro. Steve Keitzman, CFX, celebrating his 50th year as a Xaverian brother, but Bro. Warren Abel, CFX, my former vice principal (who took over the reins the year after I left) is celebrating his 60th year. Bro. Warren is now retired. Congratulations -- and thanks! -- to both of you.

As I've said before (actually in a later post than this), I'm not one for all that blogsam/jetspam that creeps into blogs, but it fit the theme and I found it shortly after the strip was published, and it really fits the theme of the comic.

About Me

Mr. Burke is a high school math teacher in New York as well as a part-time writer, and a fan of science-fiction/fantasy books and films.
He started making his own math webcomic totally by accident as a way of amusing his students and trying to make them think just a little bit more.
Unless otherwise stated, all math cartoons and other images on this webpage are the creation and property of Mr. Chris Burke and cannot be reused without permission.
Thank you.